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The Elgar Companion to Development Studies
Edited by David Alexander Clark
The Elgar Companion to Development Studies is an innovative and unique reference book that includes original contributions covering development economics as well as development studies broadly defined. This major new Companion brings together an international panel of experts from varying backgrounds who discuss theoretical, ethical and practical issues relating to economic, social, cultural, institutional, political and human aspects of development in poor countries. It also includes a selection of intellectual biographies of leading development thinkers.
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- The Elgar Companion to Development Studies
- Introduction: Development Studies in the Twenty-First Century
- Chapter 1: Ageing and Development
- Chapter 2: Agriculture and Economic Growth
- Chapter 3: Assets, Markets and Entitlement
- Chapter 4: Basic Needs Approach
- Chapter 5: Bauer, Peter Tamas (1915-2002)
- Chapter 6: Boserup, Ester (b. 1910)
- Chapter 7: Cambridge Controversies in Growth Theory
- Chapter 8: Capability Approach
- Chapter 9: Capitalism and Development
- Chapter 10: Child Labour
- Chapter 11: Child Poverty
- Chapter 12: Chronic Poverty
- Chapter 13: Class
- Chapter 14: Colonialism
- Chapter 15: Conflict and Conflict Resolution
- Chapter 16: Corporate Social Responsibility
- Chapter 17: Cost-Benefit Analysis for Development
- Chapter 18: Crisis Management
- Chapter 19: Culture and Development
- Chapter 20: Debt Crisis
- Chapter 21: Democracy and Development
- Chapter 22: Dependency
- Chapter 23: Development Ethics
- Chapter 24: Diploma Disease
- Chapter 25: Disability and Development
- Chapter 26: Disaster Mitigation
- Chapter 27: The Domar Model
- Chapter 28: East Asian Crisis
- Chapter 29: Economic Aid
- Chapter 30: Education for All and the Millennium Development Goals
- Chapter 31: Education, Returns to
- Chapter 32: Endogenous Growth
- Chapter 33: Environment and Development
- Chapter 34: Ethnicity
- Chapter 35: Famine as a Social Phenomenon
- Chapter 36: Food Security
- Chapter 37: Foreign Direct Investment
- Chapter 38: Gender and Development
- Chapter 39: Global Inequalities
- Chapter 40: Globalisation and Development
- Chapter 41: Globalisation and Development Policy
- Chapter 42: Green Revolution and Biotechnology
- Chapter 43: Haq, Mahbub ul (1934-1998)
- Chapter 44: The Harrod Model of Growth and Some Early Reactions to It
- Chapter 45: Hill, Polly (1914-2005)
- Chapter 46: Hirschman, Albert Otto (b. 1915)
- Chapter 47: History and Development Studies
- Chapter 48: HIV/AIDS and Development
- Chapter 49: Human Capital
- Chapter 50: Human Development
- Chapter 51: Human Development and Economic Growth
- Chapter 52: Human Development Index
- Chapter 53: Human Rights
- Chapter 54: Human Security
- Chapter 55: Income Distribution
- Chapter 56: Inequality Measurement
- Chapter 57: Informal Sector Employment
- Chapter 58: Institutions and Development
- Chapter 59: Internal Migration and Rural Livelihood Diversification
- Chapter 60: International Trade
- Chapter 61: Kaldor, Nicholas (1908-1986)
- Chapter 62: Kalecki, Michal (1899-1970)
- Chapter 63: Kindleberger, Charles Poor (1910-2003)
- Chapter 64: Kuznets, Simon (1901-1985)
- Chapter 65: Labour Markets
- Chapter 66: Land Reform
- Chapter 67: Least Developed Countries
- Chapter 68: The Lewis Model
- Chapter 69: Lewis, (William) Arthur (1915-1991)
- Chapter 70: Livelihoods Approach
- Chapter 71: Marx, Karl (1818-1883)
- Chapter 72: Media Communications and Development
- Chapter 73: Microfinance
- Chapter 74: Migration for Rural Work
- Chapter 75: Migration, International
- Chapter 76: Militarism and Development
- Chapter 77: Military Expenditure and Economic Growth
- Chapter 78: Millennium Development Goals
- Chapter 79: Missing Women
- Chapter 80: Modernisation Theory
- Chapter 81: Myrdal, Gunnar (1898-1987)
- Chapter 82: National Accounting
- Chapter 83: National Economic Planning
- Chapter 84: Nationalism and Development
- Chapter 85: NGOs and Civil Society
- Chapter 86: North, Douglass (b. 1920)
- Chapter 87: Research
- Chapter 88: Planning
- Chapter 89: Population and Development
- Chapter 90: Population: Policy and Ethics
- Chapter 91: Post-Development
- Chapter 92: Poverty and Growth
- Chapter 93: Poverty Measurement
- Chapter 94: Poverty, Characteristics of
- Chapter 95: Prebisch, Raul (1901-1986)
- Chapter 96: Privatisation
- Chapter 97: Property Rights and Development
- Chapter 98: Public Works
- Chapter 99: Purchasing Power Parity
- Chapter 100: Rawls, John (1921-2002)
- Chapter 101: Refugees
- Chapter 102: Religion and Development
- Chapter 103: Rent Seeking and Corruption
- Chapter 104: Robinson, (Edward) Austin (Gossage) (1897-1993)
- Chapter 105: Robinson, Joan (1903-1983)
- Chapter 106: Rural Poverty Reduction
- Chapter 107: Seers, Dudley (1920-1983)
- Chapter 108: Sen, Amartya Kumar (b. 1933)
- Chapter 109: Sharecropping
- Chapter 110: Singer, Hans (1910-2006)
- Chapter 111: Smith, Adam (1723-1790)
- Chapter 112: Social Capital
- Chapter 113: Social Exclusion
- Chapter 114: Social Justice
- Chapter 115: The Solow-Swan Model
- Chapter 116: State and Development
- Chapter 117: Stock Market and Economic Development
- Chapter 118: Streeten, Paul Patrick (b. 1917)
- Chapter 119: Structural Adjustment
- Chapter 120: Structural Transformation
- Chapter 121: Structure and Agency
- Chapter 122: Sustainable Consumption
- Chapter 123: Sustainable Development
- Chapter 124: Technology and Development
- Chapter 125: Tinbergen, Jan (1903-1994)
- Chapter 126: Tourism and Development
- Chapter 127: Trade and Industrial Policy
- Chapter 128: Trade Negotiations and Protectionism
- Chapter 129: Transition
- Chapter 130: Transnational Corporations
- Chapter 131: Uneconomic Growth
- Chapter 132: Urban Livelihoods
- Chapter 133: Urbanisation and Third World Cities
- Chapter 134: Vulnerability and Coping
- Chapter 135: Washington Consensus
- Chapter 136: Water and Development
- Index
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Chapter 6: Boserup, Ester (b. 1910)
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- Introduction: Development Studies in the Twenty-First Century
- Chapter 1: Ageing and Development
- Chapter 2: Agriculture and Economic Growth
- Chapter 3: Assets, Markets and Entitlement
- Chapter 4: Basic Needs Approach
- Chapter 5: Bauer, Peter Tamas (1915-2002)
- Chapter 6: Boserup, Ester (b. 1910)
- Chapter 7: Cambridge Controversies in Growth Theory
- Chapter 8: Capability Approach
- Chapter 9: Capitalism and Development
- Chapter 10: Child Labour
- Chapter 11: Child Poverty
- Chapter 12: Chronic Poverty
- Chapter 13: Class
- Chapter 14: Colonialism
- Chapter 15: Conflict and Conflict Resolution
- Chapter 16: Corporate Social Responsibility
- Chapter 17: Cost-Benefit Analysis for Development
- Chapter 18: Crisis Management
- Chapter 19: Culture and Development
- Chapter 20: Debt Crisis
- Chapter 21: Democracy and Development
- Chapter 22: Dependency
- Chapter 23: Development Ethics
- Chapter 24: Diploma Disease
- Chapter 25: Disability and Development
- Chapter 26: Disaster Mitigation
- Chapter 27: The Domar Model
- Chapter 28: East Asian Crisis
- Chapter 29: Economic Aid
- Chapter 30: Education for All and the Millennium Development Goals
- Chapter 31: Education, Returns to
- Chapter 32: Endogenous Growth
- Chapter 33: Environment and Development
- Chapter 34: Ethnicity
- Chapter 35: Famine as a Social Phenomenon
- Chapter 36: Food Security
- Chapter 37: Foreign Direct Investment
- Chapter 38: Gender and Development
- Chapter 39: Global Inequalities
- Chapter 40: Globalisation and Development
- Chapter 41: Globalisation and Development Policy
- Chapter 42: Green Revolution and Biotechnology
- Chapter 43: Haq, Mahbub ul (1934-1998)
- Chapter 44: The Harrod Model of Growth and Some Early Reactions to It
- Chapter 45: Hill, Polly (1914-2005)
- Chapter 46: Hirschman, Albert Otto (b. 1915)
- Chapter 47: History and Development Studies
- Chapter 48: HIV/AIDS and Development
- Chapter 49: Human Capital
- Chapter 50: Human Development
- Chapter 51: Human Development and Economic Growth
- Chapter 52: Human Development Index
- Chapter 53: Human Rights
- Chapter 54: Human Security
- Chapter 55: Income Distribution
- Chapter 56: Inequality Measurement
- Chapter 57: Informal Sector Employment
- Chapter 58: Institutions and Development
- Chapter 59: Internal Migration and Rural Livelihood Diversification
- Chapter 60: International Trade
- Chapter 61: Kaldor, Nicholas (1908-1986)
- Chapter 62: Kalecki, Michal (1899-1970)
- Chapter 63: Kindleberger, Charles Poor (1910-2003)
- Chapter 64: Kuznets, Simon (1901-1985)
- Chapter 65: Labour Markets
- Chapter 66: Land Reform
- Chapter 67: Least Developed Countries
- Chapter 68: The Lewis Model
- Chapter 69: Lewis, (William) Arthur (1915-1991)
- Chapter 70: Livelihoods Approach
- Chapter 71: Marx, Karl (1818-1883)
- Chapter 72: Media Communications and Development
- Chapter 73: Microfinance
- Chapter 74: Migration for Rural Work
- Chapter 75: Migration, International
- Chapter 76: Militarism and Development
- Chapter 77: Military Expenditure and Economic Growth
- Chapter 78: Millennium Development Goals
- Chapter 79: Missing Women
- Chapter 80: Modernisation Theory
- Chapter 81: Myrdal, Gunnar (1898-1987)
- Chapter 82: National Accounting
- Chapter 83: National Economic Planning
- Chapter 84: Nationalism and Development
- Chapter 85: NGOs and Civil Society
- Chapter 86: North, Douglass (b. 1920)
- Chapter 87: Research
- Chapter 88: Planning
- Chapter 89: Population and Development
- Chapter 90: Population: Policy and Ethics
- Chapter 91: Post-Development
- Chapter 92: Poverty and Growth
- Chapter 93: Poverty Measurement
- Chapter 94: Poverty, Characteristics of
- Chapter 95: Prebisch, Raul (1901-1986)
- Chapter 96: Privatisation
- Chapter 97: Property Rights and Development
- Chapter 98: Public Works
- Chapter 99: Purchasing Power Parity
- Chapter 100: Rawls, John (1921-2002)
- Chapter 101: Refugees
- Chapter 102: Religion and Development
- Chapter 103: Rent Seeking and Corruption
- Chapter 104: Robinson, (Edward) Austin (Gossage) (1897-1993)
- Chapter 105: Robinson, Joan (1903-1983)
- Chapter 106: Rural Poverty Reduction
- Chapter 107: Seers, Dudley (1920-1983)
- Chapter 108: Sen, Amartya Kumar (b. 1933)
- Chapter 109: Sharecropping
- Chapter 110: Singer, Hans (1910-2006)
- Chapter 111: Smith, Adam (1723-1790)
- Chapter 112: Social Capital
- Chapter 113: Social Exclusion
- Chapter 114: Social Justice
- Chapter 115: The Solow-Swan Model
- Chapter 116: State and Development
- Chapter 117: Stock Market and Economic Development
- Chapter 118: Streeten, Paul Patrick (b. 1917)
- Chapter 119: Structural Adjustment
- Chapter 120: Structural Transformation
- Chapter 121: Structure and Agency
- Chapter 122: Sustainable Consumption
- Chapter 123: Sustainable Development
- Chapter 124: Technology and Development
- Chapter 125: Tinbergen, Jan (1903-1994)
- Chapter 126: Tourism and Development
- Chapter 127: Trade and Industrial Policy
- Chapter 128: Trade Negotiations and Protectionism
- Chapter 129: Transition
- Chapter 130: Transnational Corporations
- Chapter 131: Uneconomic Growth
- Chapter 132: Urban Livelihoods
- Chapter 133: Urbanisation and Third World Cities
- Chapter 134: Vulnerability and Coping
- Chapter 135: Washington Consensus
- Chapter 136: Water and Development
- Index